Author: David Spinoza TanenhausPublisher:ISBN: 9780700618149Size: 67.33 MBFormat: PDF, MobiView: 5789DownloadRead Online
Documents the 1967 Supreme Court case appealing the harsh sentencing of a teen for a minor offense and the ways in which the trial marked an important turning point for children's rights, discussing events against a backdrop of a changing ...

Author: Kara E. StooksburyPublisher: ABC-CLIOISBN: 1440841101Size: 62.47 MBFormat: PDF, DocsView: 2809DownloadRead Online
There was little procedural regularity or even opportunity for the juvenile offender
to confront his or her accusers. ... The Constitutional Rights of Children: In reGault and Juvenile Justice (Landmark Law Cases and American Society).

Author: Ashley NellisPublisher: Rowman & LittlefieldISBN: 1442227672Size: 46.39 MBFormat: PDF, KindleView: 2495DownloadRead Online
This book assesses the strategies and policies that have produced these important shifts in direction.

Author: Catherine Fisher CollinsPublisher: ABC-CLIOISBN: 1440830541Size: 24.56 MBFormat: PDF, ePub, DocsView: 5292DownloadRead Online
An overall aim of the juvenile justice system is not to punish juveniles like adult
offenders, but provide rather rehabilitation ... New York City's Society for the
Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency established the New York House of Refuge
to house juvenile delinquents in 1825. ... In the landmark case of In re Gault (
1967), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that despite juvenile court proceedings
being civil, juveniles have rights under due process of law; meaning that
juveniles have the same ...

Author: Jo BeckerPublisher: Stanford University PressISBN: 1503603040Size: 15.85 MBFormat: PDF, MobiView: 4582DownloadRead Online
By presenting a variety of approaches to deal with each issue, this book carefully teases out broader lessons for effective social change in the field of children's rights.

Author: Committee on Assessing Juvenile Justice ReformPublisher: National Academies PressISBN: 0309278902Size: 53.22 MBFormat: PDF, DocsView: 3902DownloadRead Online
The goal of Reforming Juvenile Justice: A Developmental Approach was to review recent advances in behavioral and neuroscience research and draw out the implications of this knowledge for juvenile justice reform, to assess the new generation ...

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While the landmark decisions of the era afforded the parent-child relationship constitutional protection from unreasonable state interference, they did not give
parents an absolute right to control their children's upbringing. ... State
Incarceration In re Gault,” the leading case in the area of juvenile delinquency, is
important for its holding and its statements ... In American society, the Supreme
Court first acknowledged the “tradition” of parents controlling the upbringing of
their children by ...

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The Insanity Defense in Juvenile Delinquency Proceedings MAXINE M.
HARRINGTON, ESQ. ... what is the best model for dealing with mentally ill
juvenile offenders, both from the juvenile's viewpoint and that of society as a
whole. ... However, as the Supreme Court recognized in its 1967 landmark
opinion, In re Gault, 1 important constitutional rights of children had, in fact, ... In a
series of cases dealing with the juvenile court system, the Supreme Court has
generally held that juveniles ...